Macmunn, Charles^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

1839 - 1903  (63 years)

• Name	Macmunn, Charles
  	VARIANT NAMES: McMunn, Charles; MacMunn, Charles; McMann, Charles.
  Born	2 Jun 1839	Manchester, Eng., UK   [11]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1887	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Fort St. above Blanshard St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1889	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 110 John St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1890	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 107 John St.? Victoria, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1890	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 107 John St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1891	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 106 Oswego St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1892-1903	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 94 Oswego St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1883-1903	Victoria, BC
  Died	8 May 1903	Victoria, BC
  Buried	Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC
  	Age: 63
  Association	Maguffin, John (Relationship: Employee?)
  Person ID	I380	Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2022

  
  

• Documents		Charles Macmunn ad, Vancouver World, 15 Jul 1903, p. 6. Following his death, his widow advertises his photo stock and negatives for sale. The address was their home.
  		Charles Macmunn ad, Victoria Colonist, 31 Aug 1886, p. 3.

  
  

  Headstones		Charles and Margaret Macmunn's grave, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC. Closeup of their grave with their last name.
  		Charles and Margaret Macmunn's grave, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Listed as "photographer (C.P.R.)" in the 1887 directory, Macmunn's work was among the best produced by several commercial photographers who travelled along the line. The T. N. Hibben & Co. bookstore sold his work as early as 1883 which it described as "Macmunn's Views of Canadian Pacific Railway, Victoria and Surroundings." His name has been variously spelled as "McMunn," "MacMunn," and "McMann." The BVIPA album is an exquisite but incomplete example of his work. Another example of his work in album form is held by ABA. Cambridge University Library, Eng. holds two albums of his work and an uncredited album is also preserved by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA. For other albums and print collections see the list of Sources and Boulet and Mattison (2015). Charles was survived by his wife Margaret (d. 4 Jun 1912, Victoria, BC, age 77), a dressmaker, when he died at the age of 63. On 15 Jul 1903 (p. 6) she advertised his photographic stock and negatives for sale in the Vancouver Daily World. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Charles Macmunn's Views of the Canadian Pacific Railway..." on verso of print. Some prints bear a white, handwritten number in the lower left or lower right corner. The numbered prints range between 3 and 421. REFERENCES: MAL87; WIL89; HEN90; HEN91; WIL92; WIL93; WIL94; WIL95; HEN97; HEN98; HEN99; WIL99; HEN00; HEN01; HEN02; HEN03; HENVIC08; Hibben (1883); Colonist, 1886 08 31/3, 1903 05 09/5 (obit.); Scientific American Supplement, 1887 11 05:9876-9877; (6 photos of "Views on the Canadian Pacific Railway"); Smith (1891-2) (examples of photos); Mattison (1997b); Boulet and Mattison (2015).

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Onderdonk family albums (accessions 198401-006 and 1995-45), miscellaneous albums and loose prints [S932] COLLECTION: CAMUL. Royal Commonwealth Society Collection albums GBR/0115/Y3069A and GBR/0115/Y3069B [S933] COLLECTION: GETTY. Canadian Pacific Railway Views. Brit. Columbia. (cover title) Object no. 84.XA.1398 [S160] COLLECTION: QMMMCMN. [S138] COLLECTION: BVAUS (Reliability: 3). [S9] COLLECTION: ABA. [S152] COLLECTION: OOA. Prints [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. Prints [S134] COLLECTION: BVA. Prints [S169] COLLECTION: UWL. Title: Charles Macmunn Photographs 17 prints (PH1496); item-level descriptions and all images have been digitized [S647] Census of Canada 1901.